Category: Campaign

LIBERALS AND AN ‘INDEPENDENT’ JOIN FORCES IN PENRITH COUNCIL FIGHT AGAINST AFP

The campaign for East Ward in Penrith City is shaping up into an effort to block a nationalist from winning a place.

Five councillors are elected in the ward in an optional preference system that comes down to ‘first past the post’.

It is fairly predicted that Labor will elect two councillors. The Liberals will certainly elect one but will be hard-pressed to elect a second.

The ward is also contested by the Australia First Party and three groups of independents.

Consequently, we were not surprised that the Liberals had decided to ‘preference’ Marlene Shipley, an ostensible independent, who just as predictably – ‘preferenced’ the Liberals in return. It is a tight field and for those with a particular agenda, votes must not scatter!

No other party or group is giving ‘preferences’ which makes this arrangement more than telling.

Marlene Shipley is a St. Marys businesswoman and a member of the St. Marys Town Centre Corporation, a body that is keen to ‘develop’ St. Marys in ways that take advantage of the Inland Rail line from the Badgerys Creek airport to a ‘freight hub’ north of the shopping centre.

Ms. Shipley is (according to her website) remains involved the ClubGrants scheme (a charity scheme whereby local clubs supposedly contribute to worthy charities) which has come under intense scrutiny for favouritism in the last several months ( see: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-07/ncoss-turn-back-on-clubgrants-pokies-scheme/100357540 )

The Shiplyey website says:

“It looks like another long hot summer, but without adequate shade or shelter in public areas like St Marys Town Centre (picture) the space is often unusable. East Ward residents deserve to have proper sun protection, especially during the hottest and probably busiest retail time of the year.  I’d like to know how other residents feel? Should adequate facilities and protection in public areas be a priority? And where do you think would benefit most?”

Really – when the Aerotropolis and airport could drive summer temperatures to 50 degrees?! There is not a word against this. Obviously, we know why.

In this election, the voters need more than just another ‘representative’. We will give them fighters! Campaigners!

To follow the campaign, two Facebook pages are of assistance:

Stop the Western Sydney Aerotropolis –

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Stop-The-Western-Sydney-Aerotropolis-323910708326805/

Australia First Party
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064644372984

This “independent’s” card looks as if the Liberals created it.

AUSTRALIA FIRST FOR PENRITH CITY!

The Australia First team for East Ward in Penrith City has been active for weeks at ground level, spreading its message by posters, leaflets and door to door and street-level conversation.

Team leaders, Lili Orrock and Michelle Burgess report positive feedback from ordinary people who have all noticed the colourless campaigns of the Liberal and Labor parties and so-called ‘independents’.

The message of Australia First posits that Penrith City is in diabolical trouble as it sits in the frontline of the globalist economic offensive. This offensive is to ramp up in intensity in 2022, with new waves of visa workers, business (sic) investors and foreign students, all set for an area of traditional Australia that it will culture-bust and ultimately – ‘cleanse’.

The game is on and the stakes are huge. Who will resist?

With a massive airport development on land fought over by the likes of the murdered Michael McGurk and his killer Ron Medich, billionaire Harry Triguboff, Daryl Maguire and shifty operators of all sorts and a nearby ‘Aerotropolis’ to be populated by foreign students and technical staff, and an Inland Rail link to a huge freight hub at St. Marys that will eat land and housing, Penrith can expect to change beyond recognition. That is, unless, there is a people’s fightback.

Only Australia First candidates have called to sink the Aerotropolis and the Inland Rail, and limit the airport, restrain all development on the Luddenham and Badgerys Creek floodplains and cease with any attempt to raise the dam wall at Warragamba. Our candidates predict a composite disaster: loss of wildlife, floodings, a heat bubble over Penrith, few jobs for locals and their economic displacement.

Does the Penrith Council have a position that favours Australian producers and people? Hardly. Not a single present councillor is opposed to the globalist revolution. The councillors can see only dollars and development and infrastructure (sic). Liberal, Labor, the same.

And they are quick to assemble their allies who pose as ‘independent’. In that regard, we may site Marlene Shipley (a St. Marys businesswoman) and Marcus Cornish (a long-time councillor) who are, in all but name – Liberals. And the Greens? Nowhere to be found and Labor hopeful of soaking up the votes of their usual ‘ally’.

Asked by a local media outlet to explain her position, Lili Orrock provided this statement:

“I am the East Ward Candidate who says no to those who will compromise our lifestyle and our heritage in Penrith.

  I have dealt with various local government bureaucracies on behalf of businesses and workers. I have been both employer and employee: I have learned how to advocate for people based on ethical principles.

 I have campaigned that the future of Penriths’ local business, food producers and workers isn’t good. A third Sydney CBD, the Inland Railway, the Aerotropolis, will not employ locals. As a developing ‘special economic zone’ all this is for visa labour and foreign businesses. I prefer Penriths’ economy benefits its citizens.

 In contrast to the Liberal and Labor parties, my commitments do not comply with the multinationals or other corporations and aren’t based upon globalism.
The Aerotropolis and Nancy-Bird Walton airport development will create man-made climate change with the destruction of farms and wildlife with occasional temperatures of 50 degrees for Penrith.

 Penrith Council commits a dereliction of duty. While there are homeless, older women living in cars or parks in our city, Council darkly envisions sand minding the Nepean for development, foreign-controlled freight hubs, full urbanization on flood plains and building high-rise. 

 I will be a relentless campaigner for those homeless women, for those who may lose their land to the Inland Railway, for our natural environment and the higher cause of Australian Independence.

 I would ensure that empowered vested interests cannot manipulate Council at the expense of its citizens.”

The fight may see Australia First enter into Council. Our members have risen to the occasion as have local supporters. It will be a hard fight, but our representation on Council may spark a community impulse not to allow the globalists their way!

 

To follow the campaign, two Facebook pages are of assistance:

Stop the Western Sydney Aerotropolis –

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Stop-The-Western-Sydney-Aerotropolis-323910708326805/

Australia First Party
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064644372984

 

STATEMENT FROM LILI ORROCK CANDIDATE PENRITH COUNCIL EAST WARD

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ICAC SHOULD PROBE INTO THE BACKGROUND OF THE MURDER OF MICHAEL MCGURK: AEROTROPOLIS PROJECT SMELLS BEYOND MEASURE
For some time the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been probing the financial activities of ex-Liberal Party member of parliament, Daryl Maguire.  Indeed, he wove a web of corruption throughout the Riverina and in Sydney.
Then, dynamite testimony heard on September 30 and October 1 turned up Maguire’s involvement in rezoning matters at the Western Sydney Airport and Aerotropolis projects. Information surfaced too, regarding properties owned by a convicted murderer, Ron Medich. In 2018, this man was convicted of conspiracy in the murder of fellow developer, Michael McGurk.
For a long time now, Medich’s appeal against conviction notwithstanding, allegations have been afloat that other hands may have been involved in framing the broader parameters of the conspiracy.
Lili Orrock, lead Australia First Party candidate for East Ward in Penrith City Council, said today:
“The ICAC can investigate motives in the murder of McGurk if corruption is involved. If there is any doubt of this, parliament could extend to it the necessary authority. The Aerotropolis has now turned up more than its share of corrupt practices and manipulative organisations and real estate based profiteers. This investigation must be extended. This Aerotropolis project has been shrouded in secrecy for too long.”

Star Observer reports on Susan Jakobi’s plan to defund queer events

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BALLARAT CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE WANTS TO DEFUND QUEER

EVENTS

An Australia First candidate for the Victorian local council elections is seeking to defund LGBTQI events. Susan Jakobi is a candidate for the Ballarat City Council (South Ward).
“I am the mother of three sons and as an Australian nationalist, I stand only for the best interests of Australians,” Jakobi states in her candidate statement on the Victorian Electoral Commission website.
“We should not sit idle while Ballarat becomes a series of ethnic ghettos like Melbourne. Ballarat is under assault,” claims Jakobi, while going on to list her programmes. Jakobi says that if elected she will “refuse to work in partnership with any organisation that compromises our prosperity, heritage and cultural identity, such as overseas student programs that deprive Aussie youth of education, employment and affordable housing.”
She then outlines her plan to “freeze all funding to any event which does not promote the best interest of the whole community – such as LGBTQI and multicultural events.”
Star Observer emailed Jakobi for further clarification around her candidate statement. We will update this story once we receive a response.
Other candidates from the South Ward expressed concern at Jakobi’s statements and emphasised that her views were not shared by the Ballarat electorate.
Des Hudson, Ballarat councillor and Victoria Police youth resource officer, who was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2019, said the VEC brochure had not arrived in his letterbox but he had seen a copy of it on Facebook.
“The contents concern me greatly as in Ballarat we pride ourselves on being a welcoming and inclusive city for everyone regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, demographic background etc,” Hudson told Star Observer. “They are certainly not views that I share.  Ultimately the voters of the South Ward will make the ultimate determination of their relevance.”
Professor Bridget Aitchison, the Labor candidate for South Ward, emphasised that Ballarat supported diversity. “I support a council that is committed, as per its policies, to supporting diversity and multiculturalism. We must ensure Ballarat continues to be a rich and vibrant city that celebrates its diversity and understands the value that diversity brings to the city. Jakobi’s views are extreme and not shared by the vast majority of the population. I abhor any form of discrimination and support diversity in its many expressions – whether that be based on ethnicity, gender, sexual-orientation, or other – as the lifeblood of a thriving city.”
Aithcison is one of the four other candidates from the South Ward, who have signed the Rainbow Pledge, promising to support and protect LGBTQI communities, if they are elected to the council.
Victorian Pride Lobby Co-Convenor, Nevena Spirovska in a statement pointed out that the calls to a ban to funding for LGBTQI events would have a “detrimental effect” on local events like the Ballarat Frolic Festival.
“Ballarat has the fifth highest percentage of LGBTQI people of any local government area in Victoria. Yet this candidate wants to ban events funding going to LGBTQI events. A ban on events funding for groups, like the Ballarat Frolic Festival, would breach the Equal Opportunity Act. What this candidate is proposing is basically illegal. All of this candidate’s statements are disturbing and appalling. This Australia First candidate will put Ballarat last.” said Spirovska.
Jay Morrison, one of the three openly LGBTQI candidates for the Ballarat City Council (North Ward) and director of the Ballarat Frolic Festival, pointed out that Ballarat had voted “Yes” in support of same sex marriages in the 2017 national marriage equality vote.
“Growing up in regional Victoria, I’ve seen how much has changed and how much the community has embraced diversity. Councils play an important leadership role on LGBTQI issues – whether that’s flying the rainbow flag or supporting local pride events like the Ballarat Frolic Festival that connect the community, bring tourists to our region and support our local businesses,” said Morrison.
“Ballarat is home to a diverse LGBTQI community and there is no place in our city for hate or homophobia,” said Greens candidate for Ballarat City Council (South Ward) Jackson Snep. “Supporting and advocating for LGBTWI communities is something I take very seriously, and as a Greens-endorsed candidate and signatory to the Victorian Pride Lobby’s pledge, I believe our Council should strive to celebrate sexual and gender diversity by continuing to host and promote LGBTQI inclusive events like Frolic Festival. Council could play a critical role in the ongoing fight for equality, by advocating for human rights and working to end discrimination.”
This is not the first time Jakobi or the Australia First party has been in the news for their views. In 2016, the Herald Sun had reported about Jakobi who was then contesting the elections from Lalor, sent an email  linked to an anonymous post that referred to Wyndham as an “ethnic sewage farm” full of “hordes of non-white refugees.”
In the 2019 federal elections, Jakobi again contested as a candidate from Lalor for the Australia First party, where she promised to stop “plague level immigration and overpopulation chaos.” Jakobi was placed fifth in the 2019 Federal elections from the Lalor seat. She polled 4.4% of the first preference votes, an increase of 1.3% from the 2016 elections.
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Ballarat City Council Candidate Wants To Defund Queer Events